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Two people on opposite coasts tested positive for locally acquired malaria this summer. Rare in the US, these cases raise big questions: What’s behind them, and how are labs detecting malaria? #ThanksPHLabs #publichealth #malaria

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Johns Hopkins has created a measles outbreak tracker, similar to the one they operated during the initial stages of COVID-19. #TXID #InfectiousDiseases

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RFK Jr does not just reject vaccines. He rejects science and must step down | Bernie Sanders Kennedy is unfit to be our nation’s leading public health official because he rejects the fundamental principles of modern science

For generations doctors have understood that germs — like bacteria or viruses — cause infectious diseases.
 
Yet we now have an HHS Secretary casting doubt on the germ theory — the foundation of modern medicine.

That’s not only unacceptable, it is dangerous. RFK Jr. must resign.

Los Angeles child dies of complications from measles virus — NBC News The Los Angeles County health department is urging residents to get the measles vaccine after one child died of complications from the virus. The department said the child got measles as an infant bef...

Please vaccinate your kiddos - herd immunity protects those who cannot be vaccinated 🥺 #IDSky

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YouTube video by KFF Health News Patient Numbers at NIH Hospital Continue To Decline Under Second Trump Administration

We previously reported that the number of people receiving treatment at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center - known as America's research hospital - declined from February-April.

Since then, I obtained newer data through mid-August. And it's gotten worse. youtube.com/shorts/yT5Vc...

1/ It’s been a struggle to process what happened at the CDC just a few days ago. The facts are coming in: one officer died, 500 rounds fired, 200 bullets made contact with 6 CDC buildings, hundreds of staff sheltered in place for hours. The intention is undeniable: this was an attempted massacre.

Will we habituate to the decline of democracy? The recent attack on science in the US is not only undermining knowledge; it is also undermining democracy. In a healthy democracy, public policy is guided by evidence, and truth is the shared foundat...

Sunday morning 📰 @science.org
The recent attack on #science in 🇺🇸 is not only undermining knowledge; it is also undermining #democracy…

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5 ways Trump's megabill will limit health care access With spending cuts poised to hit medical providers, Medicaid recipients and Affordable Care Act enrollees, here's how the bill will affect health care access for millions in the U.S.

With spending cuts poised to hit medical providers, Medicaid recipients and Affordable Care Act enrollees, here's how the bill will affect health care access for millions in the U.S.

The $50 billion that NIH spends every year does more for Americans than Jeff Bezos could hope to dream of.

Bezos is a smart guy, in the right place at the right time who built a delivery business.

NIH and NSF are THE engines of American discovery and innovation.
GTFO

From Jeopardy last night...

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Tough bar to pass

Yellow Gadsden flag with a coiled snake that usually says “don’t tread on me” but in this photo says “I don’t understand epidemiology”.

All right, I’m signing off of ACIP to go about my day. My brief summary is that as expected, fACIP members are unqualified to carefully and knowledgeably review vaccine data. They don’t understand the epidemiological studies.

Each of them should wave this flag.

I’ve always been disappointed that sessions I was interested in weren’t recorded

Both my patience and the Commerce Committee hearing with RFK Jr. have come to an end.

Summary:

RFK Jr. said Bill Cassidy lied when Cassidy asserted that RFK Jr. wouldn’t change the membership of ACIP (RFK Jr. fired all members).

RFK Jr. doesn’t believe that HHS-funded HIV work saved any lives

wgntv.com/news/chicago.... For reference.

In the latest video in our partnership with @glaucomflecken.bsky.social, the BALANCE trial comparing 7 days of antibiotic treatment with 14 days of treatment in patients with bloodstream infection is explained. Access the article for free: nej.md/DrG19

Evaluation of the sensitivity of a measles diagnostic real-time RT-PCR assay incorporating recently observed priming mismatch variants, 2024 - PubMed We investigated a variant of measles virus that encodes three mismatches to the reverse priming site for a widely used diagnostic real-time RT-PCR assay; reduction of sensitivity was hypothesised. We ...

Anyone else bringing #Measles #MeV testing in-house? As far as I can tell, this is the current best MeV test, but it isn’t multiplexed yet to differentiate Measles Vaccine strain #MeVA

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Two new variants are competing for dominance: NB.1.8.1 and XFG. We recently nicknamed NB.1.8.1 "Nimbus", and it's pretty clear that XFG deserves a nickname as well. Keeping with the meteorological theme, XFG = "Stratus".

Here's some more info about Nimbus and Stratus.

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Kennedy names 8 vaccine committee replacements, including COVID shot critic The committee makes recommendations to the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. named eight new vaccine policy advisers to replace the panel that he abruptly dismissed earlier this week.

They include a scientist who became a conservative darling for his criticisms of COVID-19 vaccines and a critic of pandemic-era lockdowns.

Reflex to metagenomics?

BREAKING: The enforcement chief at America’s consumer watchdog is quitting, ProPublica has learned.

Cara Petersen writes in her sign-off letter that it’s “clear that the Bureau’s current leadership has no intention to enforce the law in any meaningful way.” 🧵 1/

The Bleach Community Is Ready for RFK Jr. to Make Their Dreams Come True Online communities dedicated to the use of a toxic bleach solution to treat everything from cancer to autism believe Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is interested in their cause.

I thought this was an Onion satire at first, but no, it's real.

The FDA has removed its warning against drinking bleach from its web site.

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RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines.

RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process.

So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel.

Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.

What would it take to make #Coccidioidomycosis a reportable disease in #Colorado? @idsainfo.bsky.social

Flyer advertising PhD defense of student Natasia Paukovich

Congratulations to Molecular Biology student Natasia Paukovich of Beat Vögeli's lab for successfully defending her PhD!

Dr Guarner is my favorite Emory Pathologist!

It’s wild just how little we know about #CysticFibrosis disease modifiers

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Colorado measles outbreak: 3 more cases tied to Turkish Airlines flight that landed at DIA The new cases bring the total tied to Turkish Airlines flight 201 to six — meaning it meets the official definition of an outbreak

Colorado measles outbreak: 3 more cases tied to Turkish Airlines flight that landed at DIA